[Device Technology] Printing nanosheet-network transistors
Two-dimensional (2D) materials such as graphene and metal chalcogenides such as tungsten diselenide (WSe2) are attractive for use in low-cost thin-film transistors (TFTs) – [Read More] (Source: This Week in Science)
Source: This Week in Science - April 7, 2017 Category: Science Authors: Phil Szuromi Tags: Device Technology Source Type: research
[Epigenetics] DNA sequence and inherited gene silencing
Cell fate decisions require a gene's transcriptional status, whether on or off, to be stably and heritably maintained over multiple cell generations. For silenced genes, heterochromatin – [Read More] (Source: This Week in Science)
Source: This Week in Science - April 7, 2017 Category: Science Authors: Beverly A. Purnell Tags: Epigenetics Source Type: research
[Crispr Biology] Variation in prokaryote adaptive immunity
To repel infection by phage and mobile genetic elements, prokaryotes have a form of adaptive immune response and memory invested in clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic – [Read More] (Source: This Week in Science)
Source: This Week in Science - April 7, 2017 Category: Science Authors: Caroline Ash Tags: Crispr Biology Source Type: research
[Biomedical Engineering] Nanoparticles for drug delivery in lungs
Engineering drug-delivery nanoparticles for adhesion to mucus can increase their residence times in lungs. Schneider et al. alternatively developed mucus-penetrating nanoparticles – [Read More] (Source: This Week in Science)
Source: This Week in Science - April 7, 2017 Category: Science Authors: Philip Yeagle Tags: Biomedical Engineering Source Type: research
[Viral Genomics] The evolution of giant virus genomes
Some giant viruses encode a genome larger than that of some bacteria, but their evolutionary history is a mystery. Examining the genomes within a sample from a wastewater treatment – [Read More] (Source: This Week in Science)
Source: This Week in Science - April 7, 2017 Category: Science Authors: Laura M. Zahn Tags: Viral Genomics Source Type: research
[Emerging Infections] Fighting filoviruses with antibody therapy
Ravn and Marburg viruses cause hemorrhagic fever with high morbidity rates in humans. Mire et al. tested the ability of previously identified human monoclonal antibodies to – [Read More] (Source: This Week in Science)
Source: This Week in Science - April 7, 2017 Category: Science Authors: Lindsey Pujanandez Tags: Emerging Infections Source Type: research
[Research Economics] Patents from papers both basic and applied
Public funding for research depends on the idea that the resulting knowledge translates into socially valuable outcomes, such as medicines. Such linkages are easier to assert than to – [Read More] (Source: This Week in Science)
Source: This Week in Science - April 7, 2017 Category: Science Authors: Brad Wible Tags: Research Economics Source Type: research
[Polymers] Processable cross-linked polymers
Thermoplastics can be made stiffer and more durable by cross-linking them, but this makes it more difficult to reprocess and recycle them. Röttger et al. show that the transesterification – [Read More] (Source: This Week in Science)
Source: This Week in Science - April 7, 2017 Category: Science Authors: Marc S. Lavine Tags: Polymers Source Type: research
[Solar Cells] Seeing hot carriers break the limit
If charge carriers in solar cells can be harvested before they cool on their way to equilibrium, then the Shockley-Queisser limit of 33% for solar cell efficiency can potentially be – [Read More] (Source: This Week in Science)
Source: This Week in Science - April 7, 2017 Category: Science Authors: Phil Szuromi Tags: Solar Cells Source Type: research
[Memory Research] The network of memory consolidation
Memories are thought to be formed in the hippocampus and later moved to the neocortex for long-term storage. However, little is known about the mechanisms that underlie the formation – [Read More] (Source: This Week in Science)
Source: This Week in Science - April 7, 2017 Category: Science Authors: Peter Stern Tags: Memory Research Source Type: research
[Celiac Disease] Viruses compound dietary pathology
Reoviruses commonly infect humans and mice asymptomatically. Bouziat et al. found that immune responses to two gut-infecting reoviruses take different paths in mice (see the – [Read More] (Source: This Week in Science)
Source: This Week in Science - April 7, 2017 Category: Science Authors: Caroline Ash Tags: Celiac Disease Source Type: research
Regulating the regulators
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Source: This Week in Science - April 6, 2017 Category: Science Authors: Balasubramani, A. Tags: twis Source Type: research
From learning to instinct
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Source: This Week in Science - April 6, 2017 Category: Science Authors: Fahrenkamp-Uppenbrink, J. Tags: twis Source Type: research
An astrocyte call to arms after brain injury
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Source: This Week in Science - April 6, 2017 Category: Science Authors: Ferrarelli, L. K. Tags: twis Source Type: research
Hi-C for mosquito genomes
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Source: This Week in Science - April 6, 2017 Category: Science Authors: Zahn, L. M. Tags: Genetics twis Source Type: research
